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Dall

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dall has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1938. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1938, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Dall, 1938

1 in 369,000

Dall over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dall: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dall means

Dall is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dall is used in Old Irish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Dall between 1938 and 1938. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1938; its best national rank was #3,244 in 1938.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Dall?

Dall had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1938
1 in 369,000
6 of 2,212,569 births
Among boys only
1 in 185,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1938
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,607 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dall sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,607 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dall. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dalls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dall was born before 1938 — so the typical Dall is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Dall rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1938 (6)
Years since peak
87
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,244
1938

Spellings of Dall

Dall is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 38.7% against Dall's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Dall by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,244
1938
Peak year
1938
6 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
1938
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dall

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dall

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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